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Phantom Limbs
In order to reduce the pain suffered by those with a missing limb, neurologists Ramachandran and Rogers-Ramachandran created a device called the mirror box. (http://www.23nlpeople.com/brain/Phantom.html)
Essentially, the patient looks at the side of the mirror with his good limb and sees a reflection. Thereby in his/her mind, they have two good limbs because of what they see in the reflection. When the patient moved their good limb, they were “fooled” into believing that it was their amputated arm that had moved, which seemed to have reduced the pain in many patients. It has been suggested that attempts like these to link “the visual and motor systems might be helping patients recreate a coherent body image, and so reduce pain as a result of reduced and disordered input”. (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/pain/microsite/medicine2.html). The brain must be re-trained in order to alleviate the pain felt by these patients, and has therefore become the main source of looking for treatment.